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The Home Front

Olson's Rules for Dealing with Autocrats :: Part 2 - Speak Truth to Power

The Home Front

Reed Galen

News, Government, Politics, News Commentary

5632 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Today, Host Reed Galen takes you through the second of Trygve Olson's Seven Rules for Dealing with Autocrats. It's crucial that we speak truth to power where it matters - with the people! You can read the write-up on Substack below. Rule #2 Go to JoinTheUnion.us to get involved in the work of restoring democracy today. Join Sez.us today and become part of a growing community creating the social media network for sanity! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome back to the home front.

0:32.6

I'm your host, Reed Jail.

0:34.9

Well, guys, this is the second in a series of seven episodes about the way of dealing with

0:41.4

autocrats that were pulled together by my friend trigby olson and i want to take you through

0:46.2

something i wrote and gives you a little bit of understanding of where we are i'll be writing these

0:50.6

and recording these over the next couple of weeks so i hope you'll tune in i'll put all of the episodes together and all of the articles together, so they're easy to

0:58.2

find. But let's go through rule number two of seven, and that is speak truth to power.

1:05.2

And as Trigby says, always speak truth to power, because you never know the tipping point.

1:09.3

You must confront the big lies of the liberal forces by speaking truth to their base of power, the people. There's a tipping

1:15.7

point where either your truth or their big lies prevail. So if you're listening to this,

1:21.3

you're probably reading a bunch of substacks, listening to a bunch of podcasts that occupy a similar

1:26.7

space to me. There are dozens,

1:28.5

if not hundreds of pro-democracy advocates, thinkers, writers, correspondents, podcasters who

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